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Yeah its bizarre they don't even mention Dr. Stone returning in that Facebook post. I also thought they might have goofed and announced it without permission but that's apparently not what the thing they can't announce. Nice to know they have something else coming as well as more Dr. Stone but it figures that they didn't get the plot relevant TV special that introduces a major character. May turned out to be a wash but June looks promising. The other show will probably replace Food Wars or Unicorn (depending on when Superman flies in) but maybe it will actually launch before Food Wars ends and they'll add a slot.

I appreciate the character designs showing so much classic cartoon influence. Popeye, Betty Boop, Looney Tunes, vintage Disney, you name it. Though yeah some are rather ugly. Interesting enough concept but I don't really like that each time these souls are passed on it completely erases the life of someone else, that's rather f'd up and they'll probably go into that. I'll see how they go about it before I make any judgements. Honestly I don't love these characters, certainly not as much as Spear and Fang, Jack or the Sym-Bionic Titan trio but that's kind of a high bar. They might grow on me but my initial impression is "why do I care?" and I kinda just don't. The monk boy and robot make for good visual gags but I'm getting increasingly irritated at the elf and Melinda. I totally understand Emma/Melinda is having trouble accepting everything at face value (and should) but her attitude and outbursts is already tiresome. Meanwhile the elf guy is trying to force her to just go back to being the former Melinda (and his lover) and it makes me dislike him the most.

Another possibility that probably is a deal they would make directly with a Japanese company… Lupin Zero. Yes it’s only 6 episodes but I still expect them to be interested and so far no dub has streamed. Or maybe they went to Sunrise directly to plead their case for Witch from Mercury because CR isn’t budging on their own.

Maybe Urusei Yatsura or Dr. Stone but probably Attack on Titan. I don’t think the Japanese side of the committee is keeping FLCL Grunge from starting but I suppose it could be.

A bit of a drop from ep 1 to ep 2 but overall a fine performance. We’ll see if it keeps that up.

Extra ad revenue for adults from King of the Hill which to the network is always a plus I guess.

If you’re gonna air a PG show then I suppose it makes more sense to lead with it than air it at 2am but uh… One Piece is almost always TV-PG at 1:30 so *shrug* At any rate they weren’t going to lead with Food Wars

It only moved once in the first 8 episodes. It was at 3am for 2 nights then it was at 2am the other 6 nights. Hardly “all over the block”. I also think you greatly overestimate the amount of people who ever saw DeMarco say “just watch it somewhere else” but I agree that Hellsing had a rough ride overall because above all else it was abruptly removed twice. Any removal for any reason is going to cause a decline in casual viewership because those viewers aren’t looking at social media or TV grids to see if the show will return, they simply assume it’s gone and not coming back. Akame, KLK and Parasyte did well enough to make the argument that TV-MA anime can succeed under the right circumstances. I do wonder how Psycho-Pass or Jormungand would have done at 12:30 or 1am in 2015 but I guess we’ll never know.

It’s pretty understandable if higher ups told Gill Austin that Toonami could not keep burning through two episodes of their One Piece stash per week. What doesn’t make sense is why doing that with MHA was approved instead. Maybe they were just that desperate for a ratings boost to 12:30 but if that’s the case they sure did a shit job of letting their audience know that two new episodes were airing every week for a month and a half. Not one single mention of that in a weekly topical and the results? The 12:30 MHA didn’t do all that much better than an extra One Piece would have. But they probably made the right call not airing Foid Wars at 12:30 given it’s lost to One Piece a few times in recent months. Of course, whatever was coming to replace MHA didn’t pull through yet but it’s hard to imagine whatever it is would be a better 12:30 show than new MHA. Probably not even Bleach is going to be that much of a draw.

Quite the revisionist history. Beware was beating Black Lagoon when it aired after it so they swapped slots when the new to CN episodes started airing. ThunderCats, SBT and Beware did rather well for Toonami but they were expensive to make and not profitable via toy sales so they were all written off rather than continued for Adult Swim. Its true Black Lagoon and Hellsing both had higher ratings at 3am than Beware at 2:30 which made the move earlier actually detrimental to its performance but the overall ratings of Toonami saw an interesting drop when Space Dandy ended, Beware exited and Hellsing moved an hour earlier. I theorize that Beware was more of a point of interest than many regular Toonami viewers realized and when it was pulled, some viewers no longer sat through much if any of the block because it wasn’t there. Moving earlier did Hellsing no favors and it’s finale did so bad that they all but avoided intensely graphic anime like it ever since. MHA has gotten more violent but it’s nowhere near TV-MA. One-Punch Man season 1, Attack on Titan season 1 and Akame are about the only examples of very violent anime doing exceptional and Akane still lost 200k+ from DBZ Kai every week. Hells Paradise would probably do well or at least as well as most any recent action anime would for Toonami. It’s got the same target audience as Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family.

I expect this to be Adult Swim’s best rated premiere since R&M season 6 despite it being family friendly. But any good it might have done for Toonami will inevitably be squandered by the Primal reruns airing right after it.

They will probably keep Unicorn first if only because having a rerun in the middle tends to cause more problems than starting with one. Though if it does really bad they might even toss it to the back and move up the anime.

The writer hasn’t done a whole lot, never written RWBY and only a few DC projects that all lack Batman. Justice Society: World War II was fine IMO but this ain’t it.

I sure hope they continue One Piece. As it stands, for me, Toonami starts at 1am and ends at 2am.

I’m not lying about the restart It feels like a running gag that the episode title we least like to see is “Sea of Despair”

Ah terrific, Primal season 2 restarts from the top for that hour this Saturday. They just aired episode 3 (13) last week so they aired those two episodes less than a month ago. There’s 10 episodes of Unicorn and 10 episodes of Primal season 2. They’re probably going to keep that Genndy hour for the whole 10 weeks. Whatever they’re waiting to announce either warrants expansion (ahahaha) or waits for Food Wars to finish. Hopefully they have the good sense not to stick whatever that is behind two reruns.

As much as I’d love to see that happen the fact that WBD won’t even let Toonami have Young Justice or a regular airing of Harley Quinn even now gives me serious doubts but maybe that can change if they’re willing to air My Adventures with Superman on Adult Swim.

Well this frick’n sucks. I was concerned they would rerun MHA at 12:30 if they had nothing but somehow they went with something even worse. Welcome to GENNAMI and an hour of reruns starting the block until whatever the hell they are trying to get approved can finally air. The only reason I’m still holding out for the Titan special is the fact the dub hasn’t streamed. We’ll see how long that remains to be the case. And as for who else gets the dub of MHA? That would be Hulu. If memory serves, they usually get it a year after Crunchyroll but they might get it a little quicker now.

WBD is definitely still a mess and Adult Swim has less staff than they probably have had since the early days.

There were times prior to 2020. 2018 with Mob. A few times in 2019. Before that they loaded up on long runners, most of which they could announce a month or so in advance. Before that they mainly relied on that library deal with FUNimation and the occasional Aniplex show. No one wants to make a library deal with Toonami now because just about every distributor has their own service. Simuldubs definitely complicated things in multiple ways but now they even get hung up trying to get shows that were dubbed 1-5 years ago.

They can simply preempt everything but Unicorn on whatever Saturday the Titan special is ready. It would have been best to use April 29th for Titan but it’s not the only night they can work it in. Works out well enough if it waits till May 13th but they could even make it work on May 6th whether or not they choose to lead Toonami with Unicorn 3peats or toss it on at 2am. But as long as that special is looming but not ready they probably won’t start another show besides Unicorn. So hopefully it’s ready by May 13th but as stupid as it would be, I would not be surprised if it is airing next Saturday and it ends up being a Tuesday, Wednesday or even Thursday announcement because CR isn’t saying anything sooner. They confirmed the dub premiere of Dr. Stone more than a week in advance so they’re not strictly avoiding announcements till a few days before. Ugh… this state of uncertainty is grating but all we can do is wait and see. Probably best to expect nothing of interest for next Saturday and maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised with what they actually do.

At this point I wouldn't count on a reveal on air tomorrow. They either have to run the Titan special with less than a week's notice or do something else with less than a week's notice. Probably just gonna be 2 reruns of MHA if they don't want to double up Food Wars and/or One Piece one week.

Not a peep from Crunchyroll about when the dub for the Attack on Titan will go up so even 8 days out Toonami’s hands are stilled tied.

He was playing it up trying to get a rise out of DeMarco because someone dares them to.

It tracks with their prior behavior unfortunately. Toonami can’t legally say anything about something airing until CR lets them and CR is the type of company that usually announces things just a few days before they stream with some exceptions. But it could also be the case that Toonami isn’t sure the Titan special will be ready to air on 4/29 and that’s more so why they aren’t confirming anything yet. What I mentioned shows the stark contrast of prior years when Toonami was allowed to announce Titan weeks ahead of broadcast and even before the Japanese broadcast on two occasions. They didn’t have to hold back on telling us they secured the next season even though it was basically a foregone conclusion that they had it. FUNimation let Toonami give plenty of notice when a new season was coming. The current CR is even worse at giving advanced notice of most things than Toonami is in general and that’s saying something. I can cut CR at least some slack with that though because they have a LOT more shows to promote every year than Adult Swim does. CR could stand to loosen up about letting Toonami hype up shows sooner though. They had dang well better let Toonami announce it by this weekend. Less than a week’s promotion for a pretty major event is really a waste. Unrelated to that, it seems Unicorn will encore Fridays at 7pm. That means not counting late night/early morning encores that Toonami would be the third airing in 3 days. I do think Unicorn should rerun in prime time but that’s sure not doing Toonami any favors if it’s going to be the lead show in May, even if the 7pm airing is much less likely to get noticed compared to a potential Toonami airing.